84
Quality Score
Excellent
Game Dev Tycoon
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Game Dev Tycoon is an Android app from Greenheart Games in the Simulation category, currently rated 4.8★ across 172,942 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Simulation app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$30.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$31.6K – $66.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$39.1K – $117.4K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$205K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $155K – $275K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~7 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$50K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
| ⚙8.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$49K |
Total estimate$205K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$600K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $450K – $800K · 20× MRR multiple
💸~2.9× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅8.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Simulation category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
16.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.5M
Daily active
450K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Simulation engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 📅8.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Simulation D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷Category context | Simulation |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-10-13 · 224 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅7 months since last update | Concerning gap |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$30.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$29.0K – $48.3K
12 months
$31.6K – $66.2K
24 months
$39.1K – $117K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.5
Product Quality
9.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.1
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $21K - $45K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 172,942 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 224d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $549K-$976K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (172,942 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.6.18🔄 updated 7mo ago📂 Simulation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)
📝 About this app
Welcome to Game Dev Tycoon. In this business simulation game you start your own game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games, research new technologies to boost your business and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
<h2><b>Create games your way</b></h2>
Your success depends on your creativity and willingness to experiment.… View full description on the official store →
<h2><b>Create games your way</b></h2>
Your success depends on your creativity and willingness to experiment.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — greenheartgames.com
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Game Dev Tycoon
- Developer
- Greenheart Games
- Bundle ID
- com.greenheartgames.gdt
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.greenheartgames.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $30.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth172,942 ratings+52% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Game Dev Tycoon: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 172,942 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Game Dev Tycoon make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Game Dev Tycoon earns approximately $30K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Game Dev Tycoon profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $30K, Game Dev Tycoon looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 7 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Game Dev Tycoon have?▴
Estimated audience: ~16.5M lifetime downloads, ~1.5M monthly active users, and ~450K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Game Dev Tycoon?▴
Browse the full Simulation category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Game Dev Tycoon built with?▴
Our heuristic places Game Dev Tycoon on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Game Dev Tycoon still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Game Dev Tycoon sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $600K (marketplace range $450K – $800K). Calculated as 20× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Game Dev Tycoon last updated?▴
Game Dev Tycoon last shipped a new version on 2025-10-13 — 7 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Game Dev Tycoon?▴
Game Dev Tycoon is published by Greenheart Games on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Game Dev Tycoon's BU Score?▴
Game Dev Tycoon has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.